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Mystery & Thrillers, Crafts & Hobbies

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Cricket McRae enjoys home crafts like food preservation, cheese making, candle making, and fiber arts. She writes the Sophie Mae Reynolds Homecrafting Mystery Series. As Bailey Cates, she also writes the Magical Bakery Mysteries.

For two years Cricket managed her own soap making business, including all product design, manufacturing and marketing. The recipes included in her first book, Lye in Wait, are all Cricket's original formulations. She has also worked in a variety of other fields ranging from drivers license examiner to program manager for a major software firm. This fulfills her mothers warning that shed never have a regular job if she insisted on studying philosophy in college.

The sixth Home Crafting Mystery, Deadly Row to Hoe, rele...more

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Introducing Shotgun Moon – and K.C. McRae

Okay – I’ve been hinting at this book for a while on the blog, and if you’re not familiar with my Facebook posts this might be news.

This is the cover for the new book I’ve written as K.C. McRae. I absolutely love it. Many thanks to Lisa Novak, cover designer extraordinaire at Midnight Ink. She caught the flavor of so many elements important to the book – western landscape, threats from nature...

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Cricket McRae's Books

Average rating: 3.66 · 1,843 ratings · 291 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors

	Lye in Wait (Home Crafting Mystery, #1) 3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 848 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heaven Preserve Us (Home Crafting Mystery, #2) 3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 367 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spin a Wicked Web (Home Crafting Mystery, #3) 3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Something Borrowed, Something Bleu (Home Crafting Mystery, #4) 3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wined and Died (Home Crafting Mystery, #5) 3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deadly Row to Hoe 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Home Crafting Mystery (6 books)
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The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love

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Cricket McRae wrote a new blog post Introducing Shotgun Moon – and K.C. McRae Okay – I’ve been hinting at this book for a while on the blog, and if you’re not familiar with my Facebook posts this might be news. This is the co... Read more of this blog post »
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